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The Iraqi government has started preparing for a large-scale national conference to resolve the country's current political crisis, officials announced Wednesday (December 21st).
Government spokesperson Ali al-Dabbagh told Al-Shorfa that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki officially called more than 50 leaders, heads of parliamentary blocs, parties, movements and non-parliamentary political figures late Tuesday evening, citing the need for an urgent meeting to discuss recent political developments in Iraq.
"The conference will be frank and without any compliments," al-Dabbagh said. "It will take care of every detail in state management, the security issue and legal violations."
"The government will not discuss issues that lie under the jurisdiction of Iraqi judiciary and will not intervene in them," he said, in reference to assassination-related charges against Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi.
Al-Maliki "received positive responses about attending the meeting from most of the officials who were invited to attend the conference, which will be held in Baghdad in the coming hours," al-Dabbagh said.
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Shahab
2012-2-12
All the honest Iraqis must love their country. May God help them and guarantee their victory. I hope that the honest Iraqis will be careful because the events taking place in Iraq have disrupted the development process. This has also served other people’s interests who laugh at our conditions and the dissent we live in. In fact, it is important to solve this crisis. Thus, I hope that al-Hashemi will have self-confidence in order to get rid of anything that hinders the country’s development. God will help his victory if he is innocent. However, if he is performing criminal acts, then God will give him equal punishment even if all the Iraqis will forgive him.
جلال
2012-2-6
Before hearing about Al-Hashimi being accused of involvement in terrorism, and through following the political and security situation of my beloved country Iraq, I realized that all the participants in the political process are criminals and that their parties are militias that were involved in terrorist acts that killed more than ten million Iraqis, who were either killed, disabled, wounded, orphaned, widowed, displaced, imprisoned for terrorism or any other crime, etc. There are about ten million Iraqis living helplessly under the influence of the shock of discovering the reality of the politicians who followed the tyrant Saddam. As for the rest of the Iraqis, they are the families of the politicians and the other beneficiaries who only care about their own interests, and they do not exceed 20 thousand Iraqis. Those Iraqis have become rich because of looting the country. Yesterday, Saddam fell, and today Al-Hashimi followed him. Tomorrow, we will see the fall of Talabani, Al-Maliki, Allawi and Al-Mutlaq. God may give respite but he never forgets. You will see this sooner than you may imagine.